Felt : Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama /

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This title provides a non-linear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centred on a highly publicised yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between Beuys and the Dalai Lama, arrange...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Chris, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dalai Lama > 14.
Beuys, Joseph.
Bstan-vdzin-rgya-mtsho > Dalai Lama XIV. > 1935-
Beuys, Joseph > 1921-1986
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, > Dalai Lama XIV, > 1935-
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, > Dalai Lama XIV, > 1935- > Friends and associates.
Beuys, Joseph > Friends and associates.
Fluxus.
Umkreis.
Fluxus > Kunst
Friendship.
Fluxus (Group of artists)
ART > Criticism & Theory.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Fluxus (Groupe d'artistes)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This title provides a non-linear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centred on a highly publicised yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between Beuys and the Dalai Lama, arranged by the Dutch artist Louwrien Wijers, this book explores the interconnections among Beuys, the Fluxus movement, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual practice.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816676613

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